Submission + - Microsoft banned from selling Word (computerworld.com) 3
priyank_bolia writes: "It sounds like a joke. But, it's real and it's anything but a joke for Microsoft. Judge Leonard Davis, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, has issued an injunction (PDF link) that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML.""
Comment Re:Self-incrimination becoming mandatory (Score 1) 554
IN THE UK. We in the United States use more traditional methods of getting you to cough up the passwords: http://www.xkcd.com/538
Comment Re:Another way to overcharge smaller users (Score 1) 112
Ed Nisley of Circuit Cellar shared an interesting statistic a couple of years ago - that it costs approximately $2 per watt per year. This counts both the supplying
the power to the computer, and the power to the fans and chillers to take it out...Needless to say, I don't put friend's servers in my basement....
Comment Re:It depends (Score 1) 592
In addition, staying technical is in a lot more demand than managerial skills....
Comment It depends (Score 1) 592
Do you like children? If you don't, don't become a manager. A *lot* of the job is getting people to act like adults..
Similarly, do you have control over budgets and people? Who would you answer to? What would be the expectations from your boss over the next 6 months?
Is your boss competent? If not, trouble.
Similarly, do you have control over budgets and people? Who would you answer to? What would be the expectations from your boss over the next 6 months?
Is your boss competent? If not, trouble.
Comment Re:Sadly, I don't agree. (Score 2, Informative) 691
What a joke! I just tried this on my wife's Vista laptop. Your two options for account creation are 'administrator' or 'standard account', with 'standard' being the first defaulted choice. The only problem with this is that you can't install software at all with the standard account. Good luck with trying to install Microsoft Office from a standard account...
There is so much software out there that simply won't install correctly if the user is not an administrator, I don't even try any more...
And of course, this does nothing for the bulk of Windows home users, running Windows XP. These are the principal vectors of most malware...
There is so much software out there that simply won't install correctly if the user is not an administrator, I don't even try any more...
And of course, this does nothing for the bulk of Windows home users, running Windows XP. These are the principal vectors of most malware...
Comment Re:Sadly, I don't agree. (Score 2, Insightful) 691
Linux would never have the same level of bugs as Windows, for one simple reason. The default user configuration on Windows in a home environment is that any user has administrative rights (which is not the case, by and large, in corporate environments). This is primarily due to the vast majority of Windows applications being unable to
install correctly if the user does not have administrator capability.
This leads to all sorts of bogus cruft getting installed on machines by users who are without a clue with computer security, and simply don't know to install tools like NoScript or SiteAdvisor and to pay attention to the warnings they generate.
Linux's in general do not run normal users with superuser capabilities, which stops a lot of garbage from getting installed on machines in the first place.
The Hidden Cost of Using Microsoft Software 691
Glyn Moody writes "Detractors of free software like to point out it's not really 'free,' and claim that its Total Cost of Ownership is often comparable with closed-source solutions if you take everything into account. And yet, despite their enthusiasm for including all the costs, they never include a very real extra that users of Microsoft's products frequently have to pay: the cost of cleaning up malware infections. For example, the UK city of Manchester has just paid out nearly $2.5 million to clean up the Conficker worm, most of which was 'a £1.2m [$2million] bill in the IT department, including £600,000 [$1 million] getting "consultancy support" to fix the problems, which including drafting in experts from Microsoft.' To make the comparisons fair, isn't it about time these often massive costs were included in TCO calculations?"
Comment RTFM - set binary mode in FTP (Score 5, Informative) 536
'set mode binary' prior to moving the file. I bet the file you are moving isn't a text file with CR-LF line terminations as normally found in DOS, or one side is set and the other isn't.
Ritchie's Law - assume you have screwed something up *first*, before blaming the tool...
Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? 536
Michael writes "Part of our business at my work involves transferring mission critical files across a 2 mbit microwave connection, into a government-run telecommunications center with a very dodgy internal network and then finally to our own server inside the center. The computers at both ends run Windows. What sort of protocols or tools are available to me that will guarantee to get the data transferred across better than a straight Windows file system copy? Since before I started working here, they've been using FTP to upload the files, but many times the copied files are a few kilobytes smaller than the originals."
Comment The real tort here appears to be forgery.... (Score 1) 339
As the letter was signed by the high school principal as if he was the girl. Nice friendly town, BTW. Identity theft? maybe... copyright infringement? probably...
I think the person that did this is likely to be out a job once it is all said and done....
I am not a lawyer... I am just doing this build my typing speed....
I think the person that did this is likely to be out a job once it is all said and done....
I am not a lawyer... I am just doing this build my typing speed....
Submission + - SPAM: The Top 3 Tips for Engaging Church Sermons
Barry Hockers writes: "Writing church sermons is a very overwhelming undertaking to anyone especially if it's your first time to write one. The first concern will probably be 'how you're going to start your sermon'. Apprehensions on what passages of scriptures to include and how it's going to be interpreted by many will be taken into consideration. Really overwhelming, isn't it? Here are 3 simple sermon tips that will help you prepare you sermon."
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Submission + - SPAM: New Chips Don't Deliver, Facebook Says
narramissic writes: "In an interview on stage at GigaOm's Structure conference in San Francisco on Thursday, Jonathan Heiliger, Facebook's VP of technical operations, told Om Malik that the latest generations of server processors from Intel and AMD don't deliver the performance gains that 'they're touting in the press.' 'And we're, literally in real time right now, trying to figure out why that is,' Heiliger said. He also had some harsh words for server makers: 'You guys don't get it,' Heiliger said. 'To build servers for companies like Facebook, and Amazon, and other people who are operating fairly homogeneous applications, the servers have to be cheap, and they have to be super power-efficient.' Heiliger added that Google has done a great job designing and building its own servers for this kind of use."
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Comment This is unlikely to stick (Score 2, Insightful) 450
This is likely to go down a similar path to the Lexmark vs. Static Control Components case - the court said that
copywrite protections don't apply when they are required for plug compatibility.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexmark_Int'l_v._Static_Control_Components for more details.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexmark_Int'l_v._Static_Control_Components for more details.
